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Islam recounted how the garage worker tried but failed to get the ignition key.

He recalled how Mr Clarke put the Fiesta into reverse and the car moved back, before the garage worker pulled him out of the car.

He said: “Mr Sayem hit me a few times and he hit Kyle. I don’t know what he had but it was some kind of metal object. Kyle was just shouting ‘Let go, let go!’ As Kyle dropped on the floor he was shouting ‘Get out of it, get out of it!’”

Islam recalled how he had been dragged to the driver’s seat in the fracas.

Islam, left, denies manslaughter but has pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving in January (Image: Elizabeth Cook)

He said the garage worker was taking Mr Clarke to the shop, so he decided to drive away.

Islam told the jury he turned the car engine on, pushed both his feet down on the end pedals, lifted his left foot up and the car shot forwards.

“I don’t remember putting it into gear,” he said. “I was in the driving seat, I had already shot forward, so I just wanted to get out.”

He described how, as he shot forward, he saw the two men to the right.

He said he turned the car around the petrol pump, thinking Mr Sayem was at least a metre away.